Forbes Aerodrome Poised as Western Airways Hub
An article extols Forbes four miles from the North Condobolia road as a premier Australian aerodrome. It notes £6000 spent on upgrading a dirt country airstrip, hangar construction, and a road to the field. It forecasts Forbes becoming a central aerial highway port and a future cross-centre for Western provinces, with air travel seen as a national utility.
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Australia
Charles Kingsford Smith
Mying
Australis
Bis
Golden Weat
Western
King George Memorial Park
Moon
Sydney Mail
Forbes district poised to lead NSW meat production growth
The Forbes district benefits from Lachlan River irrigation and Wyangala Dam storage, with rich fodder and fattening lands boosting fat sheep and lamb sales. The article traces sales growth since 1931, noting Forbes rising as a stock selling center while Parkes and Orange retreat in prominence.
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Nay
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Lachlan
Wyangala Dam
Parkes
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Orange
First sight of Forbes site by Oxley on desolate river bend
Oxley logs a barren panoramic view of the land near the river bend where Forbes is now built, noting a level country, bald of hills, with dwarf box and scrub. He describes flood conditions, stunted timber, and fatiguing travel while naming Evans and Oxley as early explorers who helped mark the West’s future.
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Oxley
Mandagory Creek
Forbes Power
Forbes
Carpall
Carrawobitty
Lucerne
Evans
Evans and
Folla
Jemalong Wylde's Plains Irrigation Appeal Gains Steam
The Jemalong Irrigation scheme aims to divert Lachlan River water to 232,000 acres in Jemalong and Wylde's Plains. When complete in about three years, it will provide gravity-fed irrigation for fodder, pastures, and stock, supporting closer settlement and rural prosperity.
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Trrigmer Hima
Forbes
Didiriel
Lachlan
Jemalong
Arctic
Jimalong Gap
Jemulong-Wylde
Jemulong
Wyilde
Riverina
Jemalong-Wylde
Harvest Song of the West
A fragmented verse describes harvest scenes across the West with machines, dust, and fields near Jemalong Mandagory Warrangong and Briblarer. Tractor toil, silos, neon headers, and a crimson sunset frame the rural toil. The poem evokes enduring labor as harvest repeats across Grawhin Plains and Tallabong. First printed Forbes 1921.
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Jemalong
Euabalang
Warrangong
Briblarer
Moonbl
Grawhin Plains
Forbes district railway year ends June 30 1938 gains shown
Forbes railway finances show a total revenue of 46970 pounds for the year ending June 30 1938, up from 40749, with increases in coaching, goods, livestock and miscellaneous revenue. Tonnage reached 47645 tons, up from 40728, including inward goods 2660 and 14980 in special goods, and outward general 755 and 25250 in special. Wheat bags, wool, and livestock movements are detailed, including 12681 bales dispatched and 275,007 bags of wheat shipped across the year.
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Forbes Railway
Forbes
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